The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-01-15
Mr.. Bowser Thinks He Knows
How TO Have a Dress made.


ago wasn't worth knowing. What he
doesn't know now would fill a large
sized book. | was fretting about the
delay on the part of my dressmaker,
when he suddenly turned on me
with:
Mrs. Bowser, it's all Internal non
sense. When I order suit of
clothes the, are ready Tor me at the
date set, and it Their, is any reason
why dgessm 'ker can't do business
on business principles, | want to
know it.
But 1 emit help" l protested.
No; you emit You women are
fools to be imposed upon as YOU
are! I'd like to see one of these
dressmakers bamboozle me around
the way they do you"
But you don't wear dresses
For which thank Heaven There
is more nonsense about selecting a
dress and having it made up than
Is seen in an idiot asylum in a wear.
tell you, it's all bosh ~
You might select my dress goods
for me-"
"oh J | might Well, hang me if
l don't! Yes, sir, III 60 down this
very afternoon and buy you a new
dress, and I'll follow the cloth until
you have it on your back I'll
show you, Mrs. Bowser, that bust
ness is business p
lie began operations after dinner
Mr.. Bowser has an alarm clock
which goes off to the minute. He
therefore, argues that everybody else
ought to go off with the same
promptness and dispatch. He jump
Ell OIL the car and rushed into dry-
goods store and said
Give me twelve yards of stuff for
dress-quick p
Calico or silkp queried the clerk.
why, silk, of course. You may
give me two shades-six yards in a
shade. I'll take green and blue
But no one can get dress ont
OF twelve yards of silk. and nc for
the colors-"
They can't, eh? howled Bowser.
my mother never had over twelve
yards for a dress, and twelve has
got to make one for my wife. The
eolors are all right"
The clerk gave him what he asked
for, and Bowser rushed home and
flung the package in my lap with;
Been gone just thirty-seven min
utes by the watch, while YOU would
have been fooling around three after
moons. There's twelve full wards
and if you have any pieces left YOU
can line my overcoat sleeves"
Twelve yards Why, never get
less than twenty-thIeel Don't YOU
see how narrow silk is?"
UNI | thought it was sbeetino-
width, of course There's another
fraud I'm going to look TO-"
And the shades can't wear 'em
no one couldm
You can't Well, you will. all
the same This talk about match
ing the complexion with dress goods
Is the twaddle Of idiots If green
and blue won't hit you, then let her
miss ! It's my taste and I think 7
know what belongs to harmony.
Wen go down after supper and get
the dressmaker to begin work
but know what she will say
"Oh! you do! Well. YOU leave
that to me. I'm bossfhg this lob.
Mrs. Bowser, and I'll learn Won
'hlng or two before we get through.
Alter supper we drove downtown
to dress-maker's. As we Got ont
OF the carriage Bowser charged me
to keep my mouth shut and let him
do the talking, and ! cheerfullv
promised obedience. He carried the
bundle under his arm, and as we en-
tered the shop he asked:
"Will you take contract to build
Mrs. Bowser dress and have it fin
ished at a certain date ?7
Let me see the goods she re-
piled; but no sooner had she OPEN
ed the package than She asked:
SIS it some fancy skirt for the cir
Gus ring y
"Circus ring!" he whooped: what
is there about these goods to remind
you Of circus ring"
"The colors.n
Mrs. Bowser," he said, as he
turned to me, 1--WE will 90 elsewhere.
1t is evident that this person has
come out of some door-knob factory
to take up dressmaking.'
At the second place the dress
maker smiled as she saw the colors,
and replied that she wouldn't think
of beginning work without twenty